19 killed in Iran clashes, including Guards colonel: state media

September 30, 2022 / 11:03 PM

Smoke billows on the horizon in the village of Altrun Kupri, south of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan during Iranian cross-border strikes against military ...

Sharjah 24 – AFP: Nineteen people including a Revolutionary Guards colonel were killed Friday during heavy gun battles in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media reported.

"Nineteen people were killed and 20 injured in the incident," regional governor Hossein Khiabani told the state broadcaster.

"Provincial intelligence officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Colonel Ali Mousavi was also killed," state television added.